San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-10-24
POINTS ONsPEOPLE,

Rurus Hatch thinks the country has
tCo much railroad.
The famous Ricketts, battery only has
siXty-fOur survivors,.
DR.. John Hell, although a Presby-
teI:an, wesr surplice in the pulpit.
NJ. Quad, the Detroit humoIist, spends
most of his time of la'e IN Alabama.
Andrew Carnegie says he is no longer
resident OF Pit bug. He will live In
New York.
Nine. Nevsda-PGlmer leit yesterday
for Lisbon to sing at the Grand opera
there this winter.
Goodwin Smith contemplates return
from Canada End entrsnce into Parlia-
mentaIy life.
Lord Salisbury has been selling some
OF his London property, amounting to
about 81 100000 worth.
Mary Anderson wears a cloak in "a
Winters Tale" which it took twenty
five women three weeks to embrOider.
weeping Joe" is the peculiar cognC.
men of an evangelist of the sensational
type who is conducting revivals in In
diana.
A massive monument to the late
Chief Justice fancy is being erected in
Baltimore by William Il. Walters, OF
that city.
1t Is said that +. MsIison Crawford,
the novelist, intends to purchase
house in Washington and make that
city his luture home.
MOtheT-in-law Folsom will keep Oak
View open during the coming winter
and the president and Mrs. Cleveland
will dine there Sundays.
Gen. Sigel is a modest little man with
gray hair aud somewhat wrinkled face,
and bis popularity among the New York
Germans is never failing.
Since the death Of Prof. Edward l.,
YOumans, his magazine, the Popular
Science Monthly, has been under the
care OF DR.. w. J. YOumans, his brother.
Courtney, the oarsman whose boat
used to be sawed in twain when he was
in danger Of winning race, has quit
the water and will build a planning mill
at San Diego, Cal.
Mrs. Msckay denies as ridiculously
absurd the story lately put in circulation
that she has sent to New Guinea for the
breasts Of 1900 green birds where with to
make herself a cloak.
AAONs MI lAuults dDOuI "uOul L0eTe
has been so much contention in the
American Board OF Commissioner for
foreign missions, has been most warm
~ welcomed back to his field of mission
airy labor.
Roscoe COnkling has been employed
by Gov, Lee TO assist the counsel for the
state of Virginia in the argument before
the United States supreme court of the
contempt cases OF Attorney General
Ayres and other state officials, growing
out OF the coupon legislation.
"
A Bconville school teacher had great
deal OF trouble making q boy understand
his lesson. Finally, however, he sue
ceeded. and drawing long breath, re-
marked: ''lf 1t wasn't for me you would
be the biggest donkey in Boonville.-
Louisville Times.
A Texas lawyer dc es an immense bust
ness, according to his business card in q
local paper. The card reads: II attend
to all business 10 the State and Federal
Courts" This must make 1t difficult for
the other lawyers to gain livelihC 3D.
Texas Siftings.
Hotel clerk to Missouri colonel
what was that noise in your room %
SO, had to break the neck of a bottle |
found there, as | couldn't draw the
cork" why, the only bottle there was
hand grenade" "Is that SO? Thought
the liquor was very ."-Linc0ln
journal.
Prof. F. A. Byerly has a little boy of
four years named Hairy. He is very
pretty (takes after his mother). The
other day Harry was scribbling away
going through the forms of letter writ.
ing), and when asked what he ives dc.
ing, he said: 81 am doing what pa is
all the time doing; I'm writing to the
brethren about the money. "-RichmOnd
Religious Herald.
After an argument between them the
man is generally silenced, but not con-
WINGED; the woman is often convinced,